Leonard l



LEONARD L. HODGES OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

Letters Patent No. 73,808, dated January 28, 1868.

PICTURE-FRAME SUPPORTBB.

dige dgehnl vijefnocrh tu in ilgst vrtas atnnt mit mating gaat nf tige tam.

TO ALL PERSONS TO'WHOM THESE PRESENTSll/IAY CCME:

Be it known'that I, LEONARD L. HODGES, of Boston, in the county of Sublk, and State of Massachusetts, have-made a new and useful Invention for Supporting a Picture-Frame when suspended from a hook or its equivalent; endl do hereby declare the same to befully described in the following specification, and represented in the accompanying drawings', of which- Figure 1 'denotes a rear vien', andY Figure 2 a side view ofa'picture-frame with my invention applied to it.

Figure is a. vertical section, taken through one ofthe catch-racks.

In carl' incr out In invention I n l and fasten to the rear Side of a icture-Vframe, A, see the drawinv's,

y e Y v PP y P D what I term two catch-racks, B B, they being arranged on the frame in manner as represented in figs. 1 and 2. A transverse section of' one of such racks is shown in Figure 4,;it being composed of ey piece of metal, cha-nnelled onits rear side, and lengthwise thereof, and having a series of holes, e a a, arranged in it, in manner as shown in the drawings. At its extremities the rack has ears, b b, to receive screws c c, by which the rack is secured tothe picture-i`rame. To .each of the ends of the cord C, for suspending the picture-frame, I affix a hook, D, or hooked Wire formedwith a. bulb, Lat-one end, and un eye, e, at the other, the said eyev being to receive the cord, which, after beingA passed through the eye, is to be knotted, as shown at f.

Figure 5- is a side view of the hooks or catches D.

Each of the apertures of the'catchfrack is forrned by an elongated slot, crossing a round hole having a diameter greater than the width ofthe 1slot, such diameter being a little greater than that of thebulb ofthe catch. The slot hasa width about equal to or a. little greater than the diameter of the shank of the catch near the bulb. The atch,`after the introduction of its bulb into any hole of the catch-rack, will take into the crossv `groove of such hole, and by such and the bulb, will lbe connected to the rack. rllhus, by means of the catches andthe racks connected with the cord, the pict're-frumeuiay be supported and adjustedto any desirable height,

the adjustment being effected by changing one of the catches into some other hole of the rack. The catch--v racks and hooks enable the slope oi a. picture-freine, or its inclination with respect to a gwall, to be modified or changed as circumstances may require, and thus they are of gteetadvantage in hanging pictures, or other articles of like character.

What Ielaim'es my invention, s- The combination of the catches and .catch-,rackswith the' suspension-cord and picture-frame, the whole being substantially as described.

LEOND L. HODGES.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, F. P. HALE, Jr. 

